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To the editor: For a recent manuscript that I sent to a well-known journal I had to sign a pledge that it was not being submitted for publication elsewhere. (Of course it is understood among authors that this policy holds, even if unwritten, and I suppose the honor system holds most authors to this understanding.) After sending off the manuscript I assume it may take 6 months more or less to hear if it is accepted, that there is a good chance that it will not be, and that even if it is it will be another 6 to 9